Show OMINOUS wo we hito have not herrl from jarge emerson Emer sor in reply to our article of priday last and infer from his Ilo honors nors that ho he admits the ile chath ot of current rumor it will mil bo be remembered by the reader that we ire mads made no charges against tho the aulgo but cont contented entea 0 urs elyea with bog what his has been in everybody a mouth for the lao last two or three months such leand alons stories se ec affect lie his usefulness as tt a red cral judge jadee and tho the opinion of tho the largo majority mijo rity ot of lie his friends in ia silt salt like late seems to bo be a correct 0 one atit it is is incumbent upon him to disprove dip rotc them or to rea agn badge emerson arrived in ia town on tho the evening following tho the publication publia ilion of 0 the article ir liole and wo we liode raland that he one ortho or two friends strongly urged him to shoot the ilia or attempt tile iho task of out ont tin THE Tani citE but bat judge emerson seems to 10 bato the icaco to understand that a resort to would bo be IL i hoor boor way of establishing his beneo ho be allowed no such mischievous counsels to prevail iiI oat but he bo industriously ore em himself the following day n 0 with his hia friends with wilh a view to learning whit what strength he bo possessed in this city slid and his SUMA to hiva have had 2 a dill dia coQ raging effect neon his bis all declared their film belief in tho the nat him and all tuoi him that but one ot wo we remained to do either to toes es tl illiah liah lis his mno conco and demand an amplo ample retraction of 0 THE or TO the ha office ho he now holds this wo we would readily to boord ora on OIL tho the production or of sufficient evidence to sit iffy our minds of his bis innocence but bat although judge Finer emerlon aou has remained s silent his hia LATO havo not cot failed to bestir themselves in lis bis behalf judge domes to his defenso with a card in which lo be a alleges that whatever money wu was pud paid to the party charging improper coa COE duct on judge emirson was waa paid by bj me personally on solicitation ct cl that bartys friends frie odi without tho the know edge or 01 consent of 0 the judge and that when my iny action on was found out by lim liim LO disapproved of cf it we know inow judge begnett to bo be a warm wann fricda of judge emerson red and this payment of arut ammy pro cordeal from the kindest of motive lao liTes the question quee tion naturally arises if the former believed ac in ia hu his friends inno eface ceniti so seriously compromise him is as to loedee seek to hush up a scandal aadal Ec any good loi and virtuous citizen may fall into tho the hands halt ad or of a venal scoundrel who to Is levy vy black mil MAII from his big fears cars does doea not 11 to bring some scandalous aloas charge against him bat tuch such is easily met let lh he moral atae eia produce II if a man ian finds lis hu home on life fire ho does docs not dot mother it up to bide the cameo from view bat he ha males thorough work of it by 11 tamping out lod and extinguishing the last ember tor for he bo knows thit that the fire though small email when discovered it if hidden bidden from view will se triza upon every combustible clement cl meat nail and finish up op with destroying lis hu catipo property nor COB can minis character ho be any cy moro trifled with wilh when i a hoa has bind band announces to the world tuch such an ova has hai hicell betrayed betTi yd his hi friendship md and debauched b i v wife il etia is ii DO BO LIMO ilmo for stand jog idle either he is ii pro ilij tale late libell li beller cr or be is ii a doely injured mm man it the the charge be i met bo be malo mado thorough tho roush gil tol t ol the dastardly lio lie ro re buted but if tho the jamol og oia m n las bis been committed tho the she thim melas elcas haj bad bettor better hido hida himself irom from the iho tico face of his bolto follow W raco mon judge canott alwita tint thit by tho the use uie of hubli money he be attempted to mother tho ilia alime of 0 eo indal b bit it lid hid i abe r has baj also igni tod and ana no now W the abo fire which preys upon ahli rionda moral char Roter is il beyond all control on of judge jadeo em erious friends came caino in ili with A i i 11 j 1 cud card for publication in our one columns cal omin to the that ilia an lodge bad tn an informal investigation into be charge and had found nothing id lo 10 fix fil till the imputation ol of guilt apon P the R ka chod jur jurist t the mca arho ho brought abi ahn I 1 card tome dome Dorro asne all and on A second 1 or third visit to 0 o tat office preferred acred the moderate that their com coin should bo be allowed to ap p pear without editorial comment it Is not cot this it damaging daB ging of weakness and letus see ca what 11 ta in bolted to io it wo we tto are beaked to publish A aloit f oft OC 0 acm of character from a lodge of influence anti dil the efrece of which il if ollon oj ad to page kaaa would bo be to place tax tamu in tho the po oo 00 ir ihnot not of a willful libel li beller Cf an and a defamer of goo cooil 1 mens characters I 1 at least of a prurient ada ft A 1114 ni licious of ca bwy tationa ea tiong tiona or of course coarse no such covo covenant was entered into and the cara was withdrawn wo we happen to know inow the troth rath bout about thit lint investigation it il wl was purely i a affair two or members were present prest Dt judge bannett conducted the thal inquiry it I 1 ia a to 0 o bo be suppo supposed ted he be would not lik ask his hii frieb very hard questions and the members who comp composti tho the jury were very ready to return a verdict ol of not guilty this was all very tory there then remained to du but to tho accuser with a bribe and buy off cir tho thi attorney who WM was rca ay to bring uit suit wilh a check th tho M D may wits among the pea at judges fri trion Ocas ds and there the iho onset to havo rested reeled dot bat will oat the has bind band brolo faith and ran around town telling the ho story offis of big desolated homo home came to tsi bunn agns awns office to inquire why we did not mention the the first district judge had got himself hinie olt into wo we were reluctant to to BO unclean a story into our columns and 0 only mcdo made mention of it at last to rebut tho the charge of purchased vivenco that some como people lid did not hesitate to bring against us and when mention was finally made we merely repeated what lias las becia float floating ing about at largo for several months and invited the io in audgo if ho he had any ny defense to make to Tin dicato himself through our columns nis his honor remains silent lis lii friends have spoken and ad they have damaged his cause more than they havo have helped it now what remains to bo be done |